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- Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:40 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Cane and silk glass rods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16987
Re: Cane and silk glass rods
You could also try to contact the owner through his FB page : https://www.facebook.com/mike.kattner.16 FWIW, I bought one of his cane rods seven or eight years ago. It's one of the few rods that I regret having wasted the money on. The cane itself was cosmetically awful, as was the fit and finish, a...
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:07 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Upstream Wet Fly
- Replies: 90
- Views: 133537
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:35 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3070
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Good find. That's a great write up.wsbailey wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:34 pm The use of American opossum as a fly tying material is a recent thing as far as I can tell. Some tyers have found it useful as a seal fur substitute. Some thought on the word opossum here:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/opossum-vs-possum/
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:58 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3070
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
I was thinking that the English may have had better access to Australian possum than American. It's possible that the spelling distinction is a recent thing, maybe due to advances in classification of marsupials.
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:57 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3070
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
Redietz he does say "opossum" but wait....are you saying possums and opossum are 2 different animals? I mean obviously there are multiple kinds or breeds or whatever but I didn't realize there was a distinction. I'm just from the south so I say possum because I don't speak proper English ...
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:12 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3070
Re: No. 29 pale watery dun question.
An interesting question. They wouldn't be domestic, since there are no opossums in Britain. Australian possums aren't actually opossums -- but they're always called possums rather than opossums. Just guessing that if Pritt had meant the Virginia opossum, he would have said so. Or maybe he didn't kno...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 2:28 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Baltic Bobwhite Flymph
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1916
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:31 am
- Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
- Topic: Partridge and orange comparison
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7130
Re: Partridge and orange comparison
The question is, what do the flies look like wet? I logged in to make the same comment (after seeing the post yesterday.) Whether that actually matters to the fish is anybody's guess, though. They might even prefer the bright orange. However, going by the theory that the majority of what trout eat ...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:54 am
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Great Wet Fly Fishing Video
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2941
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:08 pm
- Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
- Topic: Great Wet Fly Fishing Video
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2941
Re: Great Wet Fly Fishing Video
I noticed that.Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:50 pm About halfway through, it looked like he was using a helicopter cast with great effect.